How has young people’s use of drugs affected Indonesian society?
I believe that the exercise of a personal freedom should not violate the rights of the community at large; starting from the family, school community and the community where we live. The nature of addiction usually derives from personal choice that later violates the social world at large. For example, the economic and health costs – not to mention the broken hearts and broken homes – that follow when someone abuses drugs will affect their family and the society where they live. In the end, drug abuse will affect the whole economic structure of the nation. For though the trading of drugs is illegal, it has become more like a kind of economic force that drives our economy along with the other “legal” addictive drugs such as tobacco (36.1% of Indonesia’s national income comes from tobacco sales and consumption). How do you think most people in Indonesia think about this issue? Of course public opinion is strongly against drug abuse. Everybody knows that drugs are a problem, everybody kno
